Seminar 2: Facilitating Interest

Exploring Live Data and Digital Archives within Contemporary Arts Practice

Michael Takeo Magruder Artist and Researcher

For:

The Archivist as Interpreter The British Library, London, UK. 04/03/2016 Computational Art: 2000-Present Michael Takeo Magruder is an artist and researcher in King’s Visualisation Lab, located in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London. His artworks have been showcased in over 200 exhibitions and 30 countries, and embrace a wide-range of New Media, including high-performance computing, networked systems, mobile devices and virtual environments. His work seeks to blend Information Age technologies with modernist aesthetics to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of our networked, digital world.

For further information please visit: www.takeo.org Internet Art: Data_cosm: VRML + Flash + Java: 2005 Visions of Our Communal Dreams v2.0: Virtual (Transitional Space, OSGrid): Takeo, et al., 2012 Visions of Our Communal Dreams v2.0: Physical (Kibla, Maribor, SI): Takeo, et al., 2012 VIRTUAL/PHYSICAL BODIES: exhibition: CENTRE DES ARTS D’ENGHIE-N-LES-BAINS, PARIS, FR: 2008 ¿ikon?: digital video: 5-channel installation + urban screen, Leicester Square, London, UK: 2001 Rhythmic Space(s) : Second Life + Great Hall, Hellerau : CYNetArt, DE : 2007 Vanishing Point(s): The Great Hall, King’s Building, London: Takeo with H. Denard, 2010 Net:Reality exhibition and Communion installation: 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, UK: 2005 Living Data: solo touring exhibition: Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery: 2014 De/coding the Apocalypse: solo exhibition: Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing: 2014 ‘Remixer’ of (Data) Culture

Art as a Platform for Dialogue & Critique DATA & ARCHIVES Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing: Alfredo Cramerotti: Intellect: 2009

Addressing a growing area of focus, Aesthetic Journalism investigates contemporary art exhibitions often through interviews, documentaries, and reports. Theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti challenges the way we understand journalism in contemporary culture. Surfacing Contexts Data_Plex (economy) : with D. Baker and D. Steele : 2009 Data_Plex (economy) : Source Material : Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Data_Plex (economy) : Source Code : VRML (plain text)

```vrml
#VRML V2.0 utf8

WorldInfo {title "Data_Plex (economy) v1.3 : Michael Takeo Magruder with

### ENVIRONMENT: defining environment the world will exist in ###

NavigationInfo
{
  headlight FALSE
type ["EXAMINE"]
}

Background
{
  skyAngle [0.7853981634, 1.5707963268]
skyColor [1 1 1, 1 1 1, 0 0 0]
groundColor [0 0 0]
}

### TIME & MOTION: defining the time and path behaviors of the world

DEF worldGroupTimer TimeSensor{loop TRUE cycleInterval 120}
DEF cameraMoveTimer TimeSensor{loop TRUE cycleInterval 120}
DEF viewpointSwitchTimer TimeSensor{loop TRUE cycleInterval 25}

DEF y+RotationOI OrientationInterpolator
{
  key [0.0 0.5 1.0]
  keyValue [0 1 0 0.0000000000, 0 1 0 3.1415926536, 0 1 0 6.2831853071]
}

DEF Camera01PI PositionInterpolator
{
  key [0.0 0.5 1.0]
  keyValue [0 300 1000, 0 1400 9000, 0 300 1000]
}

DEF Camera04PI PositionInterpolator
{
}
```

Data_Plex (economy) : Les Rencontres Internationales : La Tabacalera, Madrid, ES : 2009 Data_Plex (economy) : Perspective : ‘seeing’ Market Volatility Data_Plex (economy) : Perspective : ‘seeing’ Market Volatility Data_Plex (economy) : Perspective : ‘seeing’ Power Structures Data_Plex (economy) : Perspective : ‘seeing’ Power Structures **Data_Plex (economy) : Perspective : the Abstract Nature of Numbers...**

### Quote Details

| | | | | | | |----------------|-------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| | Previous close | 16,457.66 | Today's volume | 88,007,115 | | | | Open | 16,458.05 | Average daily volume (3 months) | 98,906,347 | | | | Day high | 16,565.73 | Average P/E | 16.2 | | | | Day low | 16,457.60 | 1 year change | +13.45% | | |

Data as of 4:30pm ET, 04/01/2014

### Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average

| Company\* | Price | Change | % Change | P/E | Volume | YTD change | |---------------------------|--------|--------|----------|------|--------|------------| | MMM 3M Co | 136.53 | +0.87 | +0.64% | 20.3 | 2.4M | -2.65% | | AXP American Express Co | 91.17 | +1.14 | +1.27% | 18.5 | 2.8M | +0.48% | | T AT&T Inc | 35.09 | +0.02 | +0.06% | 10.4 | 28.8M | -0.20% | | BA Boeing Co | 128.21 | +2.72 | +2.17% | 21.5 | 4.0M | -6.07% | | CAT Caterpillar Inc | 99.81 | +0.44 | +0.44% | 17.4 | 4.8M | -9.91% | | CVX Chevron Corp | 119.00 | +0.09 | +0.08% | 10.7 | 5.4M | -4.73% | | CSCO Cisco Systems Inc | 23.09 | +0.86 | +3.89% | 15.3 | 80.1M | +2.94% | | DD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co | 67.76 | +0.66 | +0.98% | 22.3 | 3.7M | +4.29% | | XOM Exxon Mobil Corp | 97.73 | +0.05 | +0.05% | 13.3 | 9.5M | -3.43% | | GE General Electric Co | 25.87 | -0.02 | -0.08% | 17.6 | 28.5M | -7.71% | | GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc| 165.92 | +2.07 | +1.26% | 10.7 | 3.3M | -6.40% | | HD Home Depot Inc | 79.38 | +0.25 | +0.32% | 21.5 | 6.7M | -3.59% | | INTC Intel Corp | 25.99 | +0.176 | +0.68% | 13.8 | 23.8M | +0.13% | | IBM International Business Machine... | 194.50 | +2.01 | +1.04% | 13.0 | 5.4M | +3.69% | | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | 97.94 | -0.29 | -0.30% | 20.4 | 7.1M | +6.93% | | DIS Walt Disney Co | 81.57 | | | | | |

*Company names are abbreviated for brevity.* Uncovering Narratives (in)Remembrance [11-M] : Digital Media Installation : 2009-10 (in)Remembrance [11-M] : Manifesta 8 : Museo Regional de Arte Moderno Cartagena, ES : 2010 (in)Remembrance [11-M] - public record: Photographic Archive (News Media)

HTTP://GRAPHICS8.NYTIMES.COM/IMAGES/2007/02/15/WORLD/15CND-TRIAL.450.JPG (in)Remembrance [11-M] - public record: Photographic Archive (News Media)

HTTP://IMAGE.GUARDIAN.CO.UK/SYS-IMAGES/GUARDIAN/Pix/gallery/2004/03/12/bodies.jpg (in) Remembrance [11-M] - public record: Photographic Archive (Social Media)

HTTP://FARM1.STATIC.FLICKR.COM/56/147841342_BFACAC88C8_Z.JPG?zz=1 (in) Remembrance [11-M] - public record: Photographic Archive (Social Media)

HTTP://FARM3.STATIC.FLICKR.COM/2657/4186329838_00ede0b4ce_o.jpg (in) Remembrance [11-M] - public record: Photographic Archive: Physical (in)Remembrance [11-M] : Manifesta 8 : Museo Regional de Arte Moderno Cartagena, ES : 2010 (in)Remembrance [11-M] - transition i - v : Born-Digital Creations (in) Remembrance [11-M] - transition i - v: Physical Artefacts ? Ownership ?

? Access ?

? Control ? “Seeing” Differently